1. ZOSTEEOPS. 201 



feathers blackish; primary-coverts and quills dusky brown, ex- 

 ternally ohvc-yeUowish ; inner secondaries like the back; 'tail- 

 feathers dusky brown, with narrow olive-yellow margins near the 

 bases ; crown of head, nape, and hind neck sooty brown, blacker on 

 the forehead, and extending a little onto the mantle, but somewhat 

 mixed with ashy ; fore part of head with scarcely perceptible paler 

 shaft-hnes; lores black; round the eye a smaU ring of white 

 leathers ; ear-coverts sooty brown like the head ; cheeks pale sooty 

 with white bases to the feathers ; sides of the neck sooty brown • 

 throat and undeqiarts ashy white, purer on the breast and abdomen • 

 sides of the body and flanks washed with ashy ; thighs white dii'^ky 

 behind; under tail-coverts bright yeHow ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries white ; quills dusky below, inner edges ashy whitish 

 iotal length 4-7 mchcs, culmen 0-55, wing 2-2o, tail 1-05, tarsus 



Hah. Island of Batchian, in the Moluccas. 



it. S ad. sk. Batchian. A. E. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



*• ^^1- ^^- Batchian. Gould'^&LC''''' 



80. Zosterops fuscifrons. 



Zosterops fuscifrons, Sahnd. Ann. Mm. Civic. Genov xii n 339 

 (1878), xvi. p. 80 (1880); id. Orn. Pajmasia etc. ii. p."3Go'(1881). 



Adult. Very similar to Z. atHceps of Gray, from Batchian but 

 having only the sinciput and the lores dusky ; the occiput hind 

 neck, and cheeks yellowish olive, uniform with the back and not 

 dusky at all ; wings and tail dusky, margined with yellowish olive • 

 under surface of body white, with the exception of the under tail' 

 coverts, which are yellow; round the eye a conspicuous ring of white 

 feathers. Total length 4-25 inches, wing 2-1, bill 0-8, tarsus 0-r, 



Uab. Island of (jilolo or Halmahera, in the Moluccas. 



81. Zosterops mysoriensis. 



Zosterops injsorieusis, Meyer, Sitz. K. Akad. Wien, Ixx. p 116 

 (18/4); ^cdvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. xvi. p. 81 CLSSm • »>/ 

 Orn. Pajmasia etc. ii. p. 365 (1881) . ^ ^ ^ ' '' 



Adult. Above olivaceous, the rump brighter ; under surface white- 

 upper breast tinged with grey ; under tail-coverts pale yellow • sides 

 of neck and cheeks tinged with grey ; lores dusky ; quills blackish 

 externally margined with clear greenish olive, internally with white- 

 edge of the wmg yellow ; under wing-coverts white mixed with 

 yellow ; tail blackish above, below greyish ; tail-feathers externally 

 margined with greenish olive ; bill black, the lower mandible pafe 

 at the base: feet black. Total length 4-25 inches, win" l-g tail 

 l-o, biU (1-4, tarsus ()-7. {S<dvadori.) ^ ' 



Female. Like the male. (>Salvadori.) 

 Uab. Island of Misori, in the Bay of Geelvink, ]S^W. New Guinea. 



